Breakdown: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb Was Stolen During World War II

by Melzer, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780865343047
• ISBN10: 0865343047
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Sunstone Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(4)
Theory	13	(34)
Site Selection	13	(2)
Recruitment of Scientists	15	(3)
Security Clearance Procedures	18	(2)
Arrival in Los Alamos	20	(1)
Main Gates and Security Passes	21	(2)
Security Briefings	23	(2)
Censorship Rules and Box 1663	25	(4)
Other Freedoms Compromised	29	(5)
Travel Restrictions	34	(1)
Rumors and the Press	35	(3)
A Needed Respite: Edith Warner's Tearoom	38	(1)
Bodyguards and Code Names	39	(2)
High Fences and Military Guards	41	(1)
Badges, Burn Boxes, Locks, and Security Stamps	42	(2)
The Compartmentalization Feud	44	(2)
A Safe Secret in Theory	46	(1)
Practice	47	(47)
Security Breaks and Dubious Punishment	47	(1)
Realities of Censorship	48	(2)
Easy Entry	50	(3)
Porous Fences	53	(1)
Problems in the Technical Area	54	(2)
Major Breakdown #1: Security Clearances	56	(3)
The Controversy Over Oppenheimer	59	(5)
The British Mission and Neils Bohr	64	(2)
Major Breakdown #2: Information Access	66	(2)
Major Breakdown #3: Relaxed Travel Restrictions	68	(10)
The Impossible Secret	78	(16)
Proof	94	(13)
General Groves' Blinders	95	(1)
Soviet Spy #1: Klaus Fuchs	96	(2)
Soviet Spy #2: Theodore Hall	98	(4)
Soviet Spy #3: David Greenglass	102	(2)
The Paradox of Freedom and Security at Los Alamos	104	(3)
Site Y Security Chronology	107	(5)
Samples Formal and Informal Manhattan Project Code Names	112
Photographs	79-93	(114)
Notes	114	(30)
Bibliography	144	(10)
Index	154